Replication data for: Altruistic Capital

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Project Citation:

Ashraf, Nava, and Bandiera, Oriana. Replication data for: Altruistic Capital. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113524V1

Project Description

Summary: To understand altruistic behavior, we must understand the process through which altruism develops and is shaped by the agents' own choices and exogenous factors. We introduce the concept of altruistic capital, which grows with effort devoted to altruistic acts and facilitates future altruism. We illustrate its potential use in the context of banking and conclude by showing that returns to altruistic effort shape the agent's choices and are shaped by external events such as the financial crisis.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D11 Consumer Economics: Theory
      D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
      D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers

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